§ Mr. O'Halloranasked the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will list the London boroughs that have underspent from cash allocated to them by the Government and from money received from house sales; and by what amount each borough has underspent.
§ Mr. King:The reported capital allocations and prescribed capital expenditure for 1981–82 for each of the London boroughs are given in the following table. In addition to their allocations local authorities can spend the prescribed proportion of their net capital receipts—including receipts from sales of council houses. The reported amounts of useable capital receipts generated by London boroughs in 1981–82 are also shown in the following table:
Local authority capital expenditure 1981–82 £ million Capital Allocations Prescribed Expenditure Prescribed Proportion of Receipts Barking 7.0 7.0 1.9 Barnet 11.1 12.0 5.2 Bexley 10.0 13.5 9.4 Bromley 11.3 15.1 8.2 Camden 29.0 33.7 10.5 Croydon 11.4 13.1 24.4 Ealing 19.7 23.4 10.2 Enfield 12.3 12.1 2.2 Greenwich 26.1 25.6 2.8 Hackney 34.1 32.7 1.3 Hammersmith 22.1 26.3 10.9 Haringey 34.0 33.1 4.6 Harrow 6.9 6.4 3.5 Havering 8.8 7.2 2.9 Hillingdon 16.0 17.6 11.6 Hounslow 13.2 12.3 2.6 Islington 41.2 42.2 5.6 Kensington and Chelsea 26.1 25.4 3.6 Kingston-Upon-Thames 7.0 3.8 3.1 Lambeth 49.0 43.4 1.7 Lewisham 28.0 25.0 1.9 Merton 11.5 10.5 4.6 Newham 25.5 25.0 6.3 Redbridge 9.3 8.4 4.2 Richmond-Upon-Thames 7.4 8.2 3.5 Sutton 6.0 7.5 6.1 Southwark 36.0 39.8 14.7 Tower Hamlets 14.3 17.0 2.6 Waltham Forest 13.0 15.9 3.5 Wandsworth 22.8 25.7 12.0 Westminster 27.0 26.0 4.9